Author: Suzanne Audrey

Here are THREE INVITATIONS from Tim Wickstead, FrANC Chair: Event 1 On Sunday afternoon April 7th from 2-4pm you are warmly invited to visit The Cut to review our inventory of plants – flowers and trees – growing along its banks. This exercise was carried out in 2005 and 2011; you will be provided[…]

Bristol City Council is asking for your views on changes to the Bristol Local Plan. The Bristol Local Plan Review will update policies for deciding planning applications, guiding development in the city over the next twenty years, building a better Bristol. The Draft Policies and Development Allocations consultation responds to[…]

BS3 has experienced significant issues with parking for some time and there have been calls for the expansion of the current residents parking zone or the creation of an additional zone. However, the process for establishing or expanding a residents parking zone has been made much more difficult since the[…]

Apart from the little flush of nymphalids awakened by the bright weather of late February, the main emergence of butterflies and moths should start soon. Below, we’ve set out some things to look for. You may not know much about butterflies and moths at the moment, but you will soon[…]

For 2019 Bristol Waste is challenging people to throw packaging out of their lives and go zero waste – and we are looking for recruits. We want 50 enthusiastic households to challenge themselves over a year to drive down the waste they produce, with the aim of getting to zero. This[…]

1. From April 2019 to April 2021 certain retail premises in Bristol can have a business rates discount. The discount will be provided to eligible occupied retail properties with a rateable value of less than £51,000 in 2019/20 and 2020/21, subject to State Aid De Minimis limits; further details here. 2. Travelwest’s annual Travel to Work Survey[…]

Local publisher, Richard Jones of Tangent Books, is updating the Naked Guide to Bristol and hoping to get it to press very soon. He is starting work on the new listings section which will feature recommendations but not a great deal by way of description. If you’re interested in contributing[…]

TRESA has received the following correspondence about Thunderbolt Steps which have been closed since November 2018: Our Bridges & Highway Structures team have confirmed that the remedial work to make the unstable wall along Thunderbolt Steps safe has now been carried out by the developer and the public right of[…]

Dear Respondent, Submission of the Joint Spatial Plan – Technical Evidence Work Following the recent Joint Spatial Plan – Technical Evidence work consultation (November 2018), I am writing to you to let you know that the responses to the consultation, along with the Key Issues Reports incorporating the West of[…]